Title: Attacks from bots Last modified: October 13, 2016 --- # Attacks from bots * Resolved [Iveta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivetaarnaudova/) * (@ivetaarnaudova) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attack-from-bots/) * Hello, * Our site crashes everytime we reach 350-400 visitors, it lose connection with MySQL database.We are using WordPress with Bunchy theme and the following plugins: Wordfence, W3 Total cache,WP QUADS,Buddypress,Snax,G1 Socials,Contact form 7, Mashshare Share Buttons, Spam Protection by CleanTalk,WP Popular posts,WP SOcial login,WP Missed Schedule,WPS Hide login. The server has 8GB RAM,120GB SSD,6CPU [Cores@3.4GHz](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attack-from-bots/Cores@3.4GHz?output_format=md), 1 Gbps port ,OpenVZ Web Panel. The hosting company support says that we have lots of bot’s attacks. Is there an option in the plugin which can prevent us from this? If not can you please give us another suggestion to fix the problem? * Thank you - This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by [Iveta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivetaarnaudova/). Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [mountainguy2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mountainguy2/) * (@mountainguy2) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attack-from-bots/#post-8291822) * Welcome to the war. If only 400 visitors is crashing your site, you clearly need better hosting. But learning how Wordfence works and using it is also key. Beyond that, time to learn how .htaccess works, and use it. * In regards to Wordfence, on the “Options” page set everything to be fairly aggressive and see if that helps, then back down gradually. * Web hosting is a jungle. There are a lot of hosts out there that clearly are a bunch of steel boxes in a cave, with barefoot guys running around pouring water on overheated hard drives while they search for cheap takeout food on their smartphones. I’d suggest if possible you learn how to move your site quickly and easily, and start trying different hosts before your site becomes too large and complex to easily do so. If you’re serious about running a fully functional WordPress site, I’d suggest any of the reputable “managed WordPress” options. * The better managed WordPress hosts will usually do a good job migrating your site for you. Though in my experience none of this stuff is ever done 100% perfect by the hosting companies. Seems like there is always a loose end to be tied up. * MTN * [yurking](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurking/) * (@yurking) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attack-from-bots/#post-8291967) * Same here, but stay patient will’ya? I wonder which are your server’s roles? mines are pure gpstrackers=>api and mail+webs * [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/) * (@wfalaa) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attack-from-bots/#post-8299895) * Hi ivetaarnaudova, You may want to check some options under (Wordfence > Options => [Rate Limiting Rules](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options#Rate_Limiting_Rules)), in particular these two: – [If a crawler’s page views exceed](http://If a crawler's page views exceed)– [If a crawler’s pages not found (404s) exceed](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options#If_a_crawler.27s_pages_not_found_.28404s.29_exceed) In your case, you will need to set these values to something lower than what is described in our documentation (lower than 240 per minute) and make sure to choose “throttle” as this will rate limit crawlers. * Thanks. * [mountainguy2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mountainguy2/) * (@mountainguy2) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attack-from-bots/#post-8303693) * P.S., I’ve had good results in terms of reducing bandwidth by pretty much disabling all email functions of my hosting. I use cloud based email such as Gmail for everything, entirely independent of my website hosting. My web host helped with this, they seemed delighted to be doing it, my impression was that they regarded domain based email (myname@mywebsite.com) as a trouble maker. It’s like, what do you want, a webserver for your website or an email server that sits there and attracts attacks 24-7? MTN Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Attacks from bots’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wordfence/assets/icon.svg?rev=2070865) * [Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence/reviews/) * 4 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [mountainguy2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mountainguy2/) * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attack-from-bots/#post-8303693) * Status: resolved